Preoccupations selected prose, 1968-1978 - Heaney, Seamus (London Faber & Faber, 1980)
Mossbawn -- Belfast -- Feeling into words -- The makings of a music -- The fire i' the flint -- Yeats as an examplen -- From Monaghan to the Grand Canal -- The sense of place -- Englands of the mind -- In the country of convention -- The god in the tree -- Canticles to the earth -- Tradition and an individual talent -- A memorable voice -- The labourer and the Lord -- The poetry of John Hewitt -- The mixed marriage -- Digging deeper -- Faith, hope, and poetry -- Full face.
Keywords: Poetics; Northern Ireland -- Civilization